Word: varus
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...Named for the Teutonic hero Arminius, whose forces annihilated three Roman legions' under General Varus...
...ordinary citizen will hardly be familiar with zarfs (cuplike stands for small coffee cups), yauds (work horses) or vugs (small rock cavities), and he may also be surprised to learn that a varus man is bowlegged, that an od is a theoretical force, that a peri is a type...
Citation: "Unlike Quintilius Varus, who lost his Roman eagles when surrounded in the Teutoburg Forest of Germany, this distinguished general raised his American eagles to heaven. When ringed in Berlin by the might of Russia, and in an epic destined to live long in American annals, known as the Berlin Airlift, he dropped manna from heaven to the cause of freedom...
...Fight for Freedom were selected in consultation with eminent historians. Details have been established as historically correct by a University research expert." Wheaties' fighters for freedom, in chronological order, are Zog, the stone age man, (fighting Rip, the sabre-toothed tiger), Arminius the German king, (fighting Varus, the Roman General), Joan of Arc, and Ethan Allen. Joan of Arc is portrayed mounted; she comes on one box, the horse on another. "Get Joan of Arc," the text urges, "mount her on her horse. Then she's ready to lead 4,000 men to free the city of Orleans from...
George Gordon Lord Byron's "lameness was due to congenital clubfoot of the talipes equino-varus type, affecting the right foot only." Ill at ease with men the poet turned to women and there "his success to some extent palliated the pain which deformity had inflicted on his pride. . . . Byron died in uremic coma, a not uncommon end for le ban viveur." Christopher Columbus, after siring Diego by his wife and Fernando by the mistress of his widowerhood, contracted syphilis which Dr. Kemble contends is a New World disease. "With his limbs rigid and useless, his brain affected...
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